“She was a solid choir member until February, when I would program this song, ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ and she saw it as a divisive song,” Duff, who is Black, told the panelists.

While “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was not the only song played before “The Star Spangled Banner” on Sunday, many on social media singled out the hymn for criticism, claiming that its performance ...

Ledisi gave a soul-stirring and impassioned performance of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” during the pregame ceremony at the Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday.

Millions heard ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ at the Super Bowl. The song, written in Jax, is celebrating 125 years Jacksonville civil rights icon James Weldon Johnson wrote the poem and his ...

WASHINGTON — Grammy-winning musician Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the 2025 Super Bowl, delivering a powerful rendition of the song often referred to as the Black national anthem.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed ...